Officers from 3 departments track down suspect

WEST POTTSGROVE — Officers from three area police departments found a man who fled police hiding along the Schuylkill River early Monday morning.

Angelo Reid, 40, of Pottstown, was initially discovered by West Pottsgrove police passed out in the driver’s seat of his car at pump 10 at the Turkey Hill Market on West High Street around 1:18 a.m., police said.

After an initial attempt to make contact with Reid, back-up was requested, police said.

According to police, at the second attempt to approach Reid, a North Coventry Police officer tried to open the driver’s side door but Reid woke up and started screaming “No, no, no!”

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Reid put the car in drive and drove at a high speed across the grassy area onto High Street, police said.

Police lost sight of Reid at Gable Avenue and Route 100 but he was spotted a short time later in the Coventry Mall parking lot without his lights on, police said.

Reid continued to flee from police when he struck a bridge pillar on river road and exited the car, police said.

A K-9 unit was brought in to help in the search, police said.

An officer from the Pottstown Police Department was using thermal imaging on the opposite side of the Schuylkill River when the device picked up an image consistent with a person on the river bank, police said.

When police finally made contact with Reid, he refused to comply with testing and was making incoherent statements but appeared to be uninjured, police said.

He was transported to the Pottstown Memorial Medical Center for secondary testing for alcohol, police said.

Reid was charged with attempting to flee from a police officer, reckless endangerment and other related charges, according to court documents.

He arraigned that same morning in front of District Judge Scott T. Palladino and his bail was set at $10,000, according to court documents.